Hackers who targeted the city of St. Paul in a cyberattack last month published stolen data online after the city refused to pay them a ransom, Mayor Melvin Carter said Monday. The 43 gigabytes of data largely appear to have come from a computer network drive used by the Parks and Recreation department where employees stored personal files,

The files posted "appear to come largely from a single shared network drive" used by the Parks and Recreation Department, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said on Monday evening.

Mayor says ransomware caused St. Paul cyberattack, but city didn't pay originally appeared on Bring Me The News. A ransomware attack is what prompted St. Paul officials to proactively shut down the city's information systems more than two weeks ago.

For the second day, a steady stream of St. Paul employees streamed in and out of Roy Wilkins Auditorium, which had been quickly converted to a password reset center.

The group behind the cyberattack on St. Paul has claimed to have posted online 43 gigabytes of data stolen from the city's systems, Mayor Melvin Carter said Monday evening. Ubah Ali explains the operation to increase security and to help employees whose information is now at risk.